Awards and achievements

We are delighted to report that three Premier Farnell companies qualified this year for the US National Safety Council Occupational Safety Excellence Awards. These awards recognised exemplary safety records at Newark, MCM and TPC Wire & Cable sites.

In addition, Ken Manchen, our Director of Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs for the Americas, was honoured with an “Champion of Excellence” award by the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Management for his continued contributions to awareness of environmental, health, safety and security issues.

Premier Farnell was this year recognised as one of “Where Women Want to Work” top 50 companies for 2008. This position was awarded for our innovative approaches to recruiting, developing and retaining female employees in the organisation successfully.

We remain a member of the FTSE4Good Index of Corporate and Social Responsibility. We participated in the BiTC Corporate Responsibility Index for the third time this year and improved our ranking from the Silver to the Gold level. We are also among a small number of companies that have participated in the Business in the Environment regional survey of Corporate Environmental Engagement every year since its inception in 1999 and shown improvement annually from 2001 onwards, increasing our overall score by 3% in the latest survey.